Foreign visitors to China focusing solely on the political risks of entering China may overlook other important factors that are more immediately relevant when travelling in the country.

The former New Jersey governor announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. 

Women, who were at the forefront of the country’s pro-democracy movement in 2019, require renewed support to enable lasting peace.

Now that Congress voted to pass a bill based on the Biden-McCarthy compromise, an immediate debt ceiling crisis appears to have been averted. Still, a much larger debt problem awaits.  

Since the conclusion of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit last December, the traffic from Washington to various African capitals has been unmistakably busy. Vice-President Kamala Harris, currently rounding up a nine-day trip to Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia, is the latest and, so far, most senior American official to jet into the region with a diplomatic pouch weighed down by goodwill, kisses, and felicitations.